Simaudio Calypso owner manual Chroma Delay

MOON Calypso DVD Transport / Player

Setup Menu (Cont’d)

TV category settings are used for adjusting the picture on your TV/Video monitor:

“TV SHAPE” adjusts the video output aspect ratio to match your video monitor. There are three (3) options:

LETTERBOX	Widescreen picture with black horizontal bars on the top and bottom of the screen (for use with a 4:3 TV)
PAN SCAN	Full size picture (no horizontal bars) with the sides truncated (for use with a 4:3 TV)
16:9	A widescreen picture (for use with a 16:9 TV)

“BLACK LEVEL SHIFT” (NTSC ONLY) improves video dynamic range by reducing the black level to below normal. Options are “ON” or “OFF”.

“VIDEO SHIFT” allows you to scroll the picture to the left or the right of your screen. Factory default is center.

“COLOR SETTINGS” offers 5 options. The first one “PERSONAL COLOR” is user-configurable. Settings 2 through 5 are preset options: RICH, NATURAL, SOFT and ANIMATION.

“PERSONAL COLOR” allows you to fine-tune the color settings to your personal preferences with adjustments for picture saturation, brightness and contrast.

“DIGITAL CRYSTAL CLEAR” offers four (4) variable settings used for adjusting the video image’s appearance

CHROMA DELAY	Affects hue and saturation by adjusting the difference between the separate video signals
GAMMA	Adjusts brightness level linearity by changing the contrast between light and dark
SHARPNESS	Settings range from very sharp (+3) to soft (-3)
DCDi	Directional Correlation Deinterlacing eliminates jagged diagonal edges common to video pictures

“VIDEO OUTPUT” (for interlaced signal ONLY) adjusts the video output standard. Options are “RGB” and “YUV” (the European version of YPBPR). The setting only takes effect when you exit the setup menu.

Audio category settings are used for adjusting the output sound:

“DIGITAL OUTPUT” adjusts the digital audio output. The three (3) options are “ALL” (factory default) for use when connecting the digital output to a multi-channel processor; “PCM ONLY” is for 2-channel digital output; “OFF” is used when you are not using the Calypso’s digital output.

“ANALOG OUTPUT” (MOON Calypso-AONLY) allows you to set the analog audio output. The three (3) options are “STEREO”, “DOLBY SURROUND COMPATIBLE” and “3D SOUND” (TruSurround™ ).

“NIGHT MODE” compresses the peaks and while optimizing the dynamics in the audio signal for low volume playback. Options are “ON” or “OFF”.

“KARAOKE VOCAL” allows the Calypso to downmix a multi-channel Karaoke DVD to the 2-channel audio outputs. Set to “ON” only when a using this type of DVD, otherwise set this function to “OFF”

“PCM OUTPUT” adjusts the sampling rate of the digital Pulse Code Modulation output to either “48kHz” or “96kHz”.

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